Śródmieście, Gdańsk

Śródmieście ([ɕrudˈmjeɕt͡ɕe]; means "city centre"; Kashubian: Westrzódgardzé) is a district (dzielnica) of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. Śródmieście is commonly referred to as Main City, Old City, or simply Gdańsk, since the quarter is equivalent to the traditional area of the city.

Śródmieście
Gdańsk District
Location of Brzeźno within Gdańsk
Coordinates: 54°24′27″N 18°37′53″E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPomeranian
County/CityGdańsk
Area
 • Total5.65 km2 (2.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total29,630[1]
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
80-500
Area code(s)+48 58

Location

The quarter is located in the centre-eastern part of Gdańsk, on the River Motława to its west and east. To its north-east, the quarter borders the Przeróbka quarter on Port Island by the Martwa Wisła River. To its south and east, the quarter is bordered by the Opływ Motławy, via which the quarter borders the quarters of Rudniki, Olszynka and Orunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce. To the south-west of Śródmieście, via Biskupia Górka, the quarter borders Chełm, to the west with Siedlce. Śródmieście borders Aniołki and Młyniska to its north.

Quarter subdivisions
Długie Pobrzeże and Motława River.
Gdańsk Główny railway station.
Wyspa Spichrzów granaries.
Na Stepcę Canal.

The following morphological units are located in Śródmieście:

Division Short description Location in Śródmieście
Główne MiastoThe oldest borough of the Gdańsk agglomeration from the ninth-century. A fortified trade port between the tenth and thirteen-century. Municipal government based on Lübeck law between 1261–1263.
Stare MiastoSettled between 970–980, after 1433 surrounded by palisades and a motte.
Stare PrzedmieścieAn unfortified subdivision of Główne Miasto. Since 1360, gardens and ship workshops.
Wyspa SpichrzówAround 1330, the first granaries were built, as well as a butcher, city folwark, Popielny Court (Dwór Popielny) and storehouses.
Długie Ogrodyc. 1360 - meadows and rental gardens (patrimonium). An undefensed borough was built at the beginning of the fifteenth-century.
OłowiankaBetween 1343–1454, property of the Teutonic Order.
Dolne MiastoGarden borough.
Nowe OgrodyHospital and St. Gertrude's Church built in 1342.
GrodziskoDefensive gord built in the ninth-tenth-century. City fortifications built in 1656 and 1807.
Biskupia GórkaProperty of the Bishops of Wrocław, bishop's court. City fortifications built in the seventeenth-century.
ZaroślakTeutonic settlement from 1365.
Sienna GroblaBlockhouse on the Polski Hak from the eighteenth-century.
RudnoPart of the Długie Ogrody from the fifteenth and sixteenth-century.

References
  1. "Gdańsk - oficjalny portal miasta". www.gdansk.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 19 August 2017.


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